Kandinsky

[ kan-din-skee; Russian kuhn-dyeen-skyee ]

noun

1. Was·si·ly [vas, -, uh, -lee] or Va·si·li [vas, -, uh, -lee, v, uh, -, sil, -ee, vuh-, syee, -lyee], 1866–1944, Russian painter.

Kandinsky

/ kanˈdinskij /

noun

1. KandinskyVasili18661944MRussianARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: expressionist theorist Vasili (vaˈsilij). 1866–1944, Russian expressionist painter and theorist, regarded as the first to develop an entirely abstract style: a founder of der Blaue Reiter

Example Sentences

Spence also took part in a study that found people liked their salad better if it looked like a Kandinsky painting.

From Popular-Science

Two panels painted in 1914 by Vasily Kandinsky and recently on view at the Museum of Modern Art.

From The Daily Beast

Winters liked to paint—usually quirky joke paintings that owed something to surrealism and Kandinsky.

From The Daily Beast

This is “Impression III (Concert)”, by Vasily Kandinsky, and I think it is very ugly – gloriously, importantly ugly.

From The Daily Beast

In this, then, as in so much else, Kandinsky and Dalcroze are advancing side by side.

From Project Gutenberg

If Kandinsky, as a theorist, is cabalistic and illusory, he achieves a certain decorative prettiness in his work.

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Kandinsky has only tried to introduce an unimportant element of one art into another art.

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Like the Cubists Kandinsky is a step toward arbitrariness in formal composition, but his advance is less significant than theirs.

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Kandinsky is a painter of moods, and as such encroaches upon the domain of music.

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